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• Reference: 2024/0208
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

In your response to question 2023/4793, you stated the “Speed Compliance Tool is useful for general monitoring and trend analysis”. Accordingly, please will you provide me with a spreadsheet showing the aggregate number of speeding incidents on a monthly basis across all bus routes recorded by TfL’s speed compliance tool for the period 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2023?

• Reference: 2024/0209
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

In your response to question 2022/5399 you instructed me that “the only [contracted bus] performance information that is appropriate for sharing” and “routinely made available on the TfL website” can be found here: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/buses-performance… I note that in the Winter 2023 Edition of an industry publication Bus Talk, Go Ahead London MD David Cutts, writes, “On the road, the operating environment is becoming increasingly hard, with traffic the worst it has been for many years. Please be assured we are lobbying TfL for greater bus priority and more running time in schedules. Against this backdrop, we have maintained our now...

• Reference: 2024/0210
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

In your response to question 2022/5399 you instructed me that “the only [contracted bus] performance information that is appropriate for sharing” and “routinely made available on the TfL website” can be found here: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/buses-performance…. Given the fact that we are told, since 2018, TfL holds detailed bus speed data for all bus routes on its speed compliance tool, will you add an additional column on the ‘Route Speed Reports’ to show the incidents of speeding TfL has recorded for each route for each reporting period?

• Reference: 2024/0211
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Will you consider adding a column to the data sets published on TfL’s “Bus Operator League Table” (https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/bus-operator-leag…) webpage to show the number of speeding incidents recorded by TfL’s speed compliance tool for each bus operator for each reporting period? If TfL has long ranked bus operators by ‘Excess Waiting Time’ (EWT) targets, wouldn’t also having that same page show how many times the bus operator broke the law through speeding to achieve those EWT targets be more in line with your ‘ambitious’ Vision Zero goals?

• Reference: 2024/0212
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Your rejection of my proposal in questions 2023/3651, 2023/3366 and 2023/2822 seemingly confirmed that you are intent on paying bus operators involved in collisions that result in someone being killed or seriously injured. Given that, thanks to a Go Ahead London bus driver training video (cf. https://youtu.be/6AqpayPhxn4), we now know much more about the extensive features of TfL’s speed compliance tool, will you consider withholding payment for any mileage that’s driven over the speed limit?

• Reference: 2024/0213
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Data published on TfL’s ‘Bus Safety Data’ page shows that over the period 1 January 2018 to 30 September 2023, there have been 4511 bus crashes in which people have been injured. For these 4511 incidents, please will you provide me with the exact number of speeding incidents and the date, route number and bus operator involved?

• Reference: 2024/0214
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Data published on TfL’s ‘Bus Safety Data’ page shows that over the period 1 January 2018 to 30 September 2023, there have been 1447 bus crashes in which people have been sent to hospital. For these 1447 incidents, please will you provide me with the exact number of speeding incidents and the date, route number and bus operator involved?

• Reference: 2024/0215
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Data published on TfL’s ‘Bus Safety Data’ page shows that over the period 1 January 2018 to 30 September 2023, there have been 37 Bus Crashes in which people have been killed. For these 37 incidents, please will you provide me with the exact number of speeding incidents and the date, route number and bus operator involved?

• Reference: 2024/0216
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

Does TfL have any evidence to support the claim that people will move to more dangerous modes as a result of higher bus fares?

• Reference: 2024/0217
• Question by: Neil Garratt
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

On page 29 of TfL’s ‘Bold’ New Bus Safety Strategy there’s a text box entitled ‘Deviation from the Bus Safety Standard roadmap’ which unambiguously states that there will be delays in TfL’s implementation of its technology-based solutions to policies which promote unsafe behaviour (e.g., speeding to meet contracted headway targets) and unsafe working conditions (e.g. fatigue-inducing rosters and rota changes). Given that TfL knows it no longer can depend on long-term technology-based solutions to improve bus safety within its Vision Zero time frame, will you consider Mayor Johnson’s February 2016 promise to “update TfL Bus Contracts to included new Bus...